When we last saw our hero Endeavour Morse (Shaun Evans) in Series 2, Episode 4, “Neverland,” things did not end well. His boss and mentor, D.I. Fred Thursday (Roger Allam), was critically injured and Morse had been put in prison. That sort of experience will change a man. It certainly changed Morse. He’s since been released,…
Everyone is wearing a poppy for remembrance, which should give you a clue that this episode will concern the past and the sins committed then. It also concerns a murderer who is very much present in the minds of Morse and his colleagues, and who plans to continue murdering in the future unless they can…
Word to the wise: You’d better be on your toes when you’re dealing with Endeavour. If you’d forgotten this, the first two minutes of “Trove” will remind you. They’re a deluge of information: Miss Great Britain participates in a ceremonial ribbon-cutting; Morse undergoes a physical exam; a car pulls into a gas station; a dark-haired…
“They come at you through what you care about,” D.I. Fred Thursday tells Morse, explaining the intimidation tactics of mobsters and thugs. He’s talking in generalities about one specific “face” called Vic Kasper. Thursday and Kasper have history dating back to Thursday’s time working in London. Kasper resurfacing in Oxford as the proprietor of a…
Endeavour series creator/writer Russell Lewis must be a fan of The Lion in Winter. If you are, too, prepare to be awash in allusions to it in this episode, starting with Jenny Seagrove’s first scene with her husband, played by Martin Jarvis. She’s Nora, he’s Henry, and they’re engaged in a power struggle over British…
Call me fickle: just as I was mourning the loss of Inspector Lewis and Sergeant Hathaway, along comes another man to steal my heart. His name is Shaun Evans, and if there are photos of him frolicking on the beaches of the French Riviera or cavorting in Las Vegas, I don’t want to see them. …
